Family name origins & meanings
- English : habitational name from Chilson in Oxfordshire, named with Old English cild ‘young man’ (see Child) + tūn ‘farmstead’, ‘settlement’.
- It is not known when this surname was first brought to America, but it was well established in CT in the early 18th century. Daniel Chilson of Weathersfield, CT, was born about 1720 and on 4 October 1745 married Sybil Stanclift in Middlesex County, CT.